Algo keeps recommending me this chungus but he absolutely sucks, he is audience captured by libs and wamen.
>>24764438John David Ebert has decent in-depth lectures (chapter by chapter) on Pynchon and McCarthy. He also did Faust, apparently
>>24764438>AlgoO algo?
>>24764438I hate this kind of reader: the man who reads big doorstepper (post)modernists novel and nothing else. Who makes lists in his head of the "best" books he ever read (all above 400 pages and written by other men in the last 100 years or so); who considers every tryhard maximalistslop that comes out nowadays a masterpiece - without seeing how redundant and derivative most of them are nowadays. I love Ulysses as much as the next person, but would really like to see readers like this sitting down with a normal-sized book about normal people, like Flaubert's Sentimental Education or Madame Bovary, and just talk extensively about a single paragraph they really enjoyed, something like 10/15 lines of text, no more, without appealing to big philosophical ideas or general themes. I'm not sure these kind of readers can talk in anything but very broad generalizations.It doesn't help that they are mostly men. Hearing them talk about books feels like them trying to find yet another surrogate activity to joining real life - such as videogames and comics. Not being able to do a deep analysis of something specific gives me, again, the impression that people like this are substantially just another type of manchild - incapable of seriously taking responsability for themselves and reach a real level of competence in something, choosing instead to deal in these childlike all-encompassing general fantasies about "figuring out" life from a piece of literature.
>>24764466Bought post classic cinema and art after metaphysics from him, both great books.Shame that authors of his calibre have to resort to low quality amazon print on demand.
>>24764726I treat him as something of a schizo (astrology, really?) but with enough learning and inventiveness to invite interesting, if unusual readings. Was definitely helpful when I was getting into Pynchon.
>>24764438I don't understand how anyone stomachs YouTube. The still shots of goobers making onions faces is enough to make me sick. The formulaic presentation, the ruses for viewer engagement (leave a comment below, hit that bell, like an subscribe, etc.), the contrived YouTube speech cadence. It's all enough to make a man puke.
>>24764778He's sort of like the last remnant of the boomer new age types, the few ones that were more interested on the metaphysical concepts than group sex.Astrology isn't just a thing for bored wine aunts, Pynchon itself made astral maps for Mason and Dixon, all Pessoa heteronyms had them also.
>>24764926I'm all for using esotericism to explore the human condition or to map out the story structure, I'm especially partial to the Kabbalah ever since I read Saragossa, but it's one thing to put it in a novel, and another to wholeheartedly believe in it.
>>24764466>John David Ebert has decent in-depth lectures (chapter by chapter) on Pynchoni tried listening to his series on gravity's rainbow but had to drop it immediately when he misunderstood the literal first sentence of the novel. it's particularly funny because he has this whole bullshit preamble about how you can't "just read" the book, you have to do a million hours of research or whatever, and then he fails at simple reading.
>>24764587normally i dont like this species of dissmisive, stereotyping, psychoanalyzing and cynical 4chan post but i completely agree with>appealing to big philosophical ideas or general themes. I'm not sure these kind of readers can talk in anything but very broad generalizations.
>>24764587>Other men (spits)Go back
Man carrying thing
>>24764438I hate it so much when people use words like 'overrated'. It makes it clear that they aren't thinking about the book itself, rather reactions and discourse on the book from social media. Say something of substance about the novel rather than giving your opinions on other people's opinions you read on faggot twitter. I have no idea who this obese retard is, but I hope he chokes on his next feedbag
I only watch profs give lectures but not from the anglosphere ofc
>>24764438I would never watch a book video by anyone that looks like that
>>24764438There are but I'm gatekeeping, sorry. I don't want to introduce various kinds of retards here to innocent small channels.
I think about starting a BookTube channel all the time because I think you guys would like it but I never do because I don’t want my legacy to be some B-rate YouTuber. I have a real career so I have to stick with that.
>>24764587To be fair, he glazes Hard Rain Falling a ton and that's a shorter book
>>24765511I’d hesitate to call McDonald’s a “career,” anon.
@interestingbooksreviewedCovers my general interests in a relaxing manner.
https://www.youtube.com/@travelthroughstories/videos
whenever i see threads like these i imagine a youtuber with 5k subs trying to see if anyone here knows them kek
https://youtu.be/pfRA-OfxrDY
>>24764438The only good book channel is Adeh TV, but they speak Spanish.
>>24764926>He's sort of like the last remnant of the boomer new age typesHe's what people used to call hipsters. He's not wearing it in the OP but if you look at the getup of him and his co-host over time, it almost completely tracks with most aging hipster dads once they started to wear more black. It does not help that he uses the word "normie" with no self-consciousness.Also this guy often recommends books he admits he has not even read yet, and also recommends contemporary non-Western stuff that will probably never matter.I think the only channel I keep watching is Write Conscious / Literary Renaissance, and the few channels that /lit/ anons have.
bookchemistbetter than food
>>24764438>le 80IQ trucker phenotype
>>24764587Blood Meridan is 300 pages, that's not a doorstopper
>>24767529i am growing old with this nigga right here
